Financial Assistance
Choose Your Way Bellevue is a city program that promotes non-drive-alone travel. It offers employer and property manager mini-grants, starter ORCA cards, rebates on ORCA Passports, and commute plan assistance.
Employee Commute Programs
Employer and property manager programs can range from ongoing full-value transit and other mode subsidies to capital items such as secure bicycle parking, lockers, and showers. Or, employers can simply allow commute expenses as pre-tax dollars and convey information about travel modes at periodic events.
The choice is yours: You can tailor your program to your goals, needs, and available budget. Or even no budget.
Contact CYWB to learn more about how we can help you with a program that works for you company.
Mini Grants
Employers and property managers in Bellevue: Choose Your Way Bellevue Business Services offers mini-grants of up to $10,000 for commute-related one-time capital projects such as bike racks/amenities, real-time lobby transit screens, wayfinding for bike parking, parking facility changes to encourage high-occupancy vehicles, and time-limited promotional campaigns for non-solo commuting. This can include covering transit or vanpool fare pilots. The mini-grants can also support programs to manage daily-choice parking at your worksite. Available while funded.
Free Employer ORCA “Starter” Cards
Choose Your Way Bellevue is encouraging your employees to try transit. We invite Bellevue employers and property managers to apply for up to 50 ORCA cards preloaded with $12 to get you started.
Rebates on New ORCA Passport Programs for Business Owners & Property Managers
ORCA Passport programs are a way to offer your employees unlimited free rides aboard all major transit agencies at a fraction of the retail price. Employers and property managers starting a new ORCA Passport program are eligible for rebates from Choose Your Way Bellevue Business Services and qualify for the New Customer Incentive through King County Metro.
Learn more about ORCA Rebates and King County Metro’s new customer incentive: ORCA Rebate and KCM Incentive.pdf
Read more about ORCA Business Offerings on our Business Resource page or on King County Metro’s website. If you’d like to learn more about how to apply, contact them at info@cywb.org or click here to schedule your free consultation.